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godawful Gillette ad of man shaving his pubes

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ThatNimblePeer · 20/03/2025 21:51

Sorry for the unpleasant topic but it’s driving me mad! Is this happening to anyone else? Every time I try to watch any video on YouTube, the ad that comes up is a Gillette ad of a man in the shower with a deep voice intoning ‘going to groom down there are we?’ There then follows a close-up of the man shaving hair off his body, not actually his pubes but as close as they can decently show. It is absolutely emetic and this has been going on for months. YouTube won’t show me any other ad. Apart from anything else I’m female so male shaving products are not relevant to me!!!! But also it’s so gross!!!! Not sexy or trying to be. It actually makes me feel sick. How do I make it stop?!!!!! I’m guessing I must have selected at some point that I didn’t want ‘targeted’ ads (I.e. ones they think are relevant to women in their early forties, of anti-aging cream etc) and this is how YouTube is punishing me. It’s relentless!

YABU - never seen or heard of this ad, you must have hallucinated it. Accept the targeted ads and come over to the world of Dove face cream

YANBU - it’s following me around too and yes, it’s unforgivably awful

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GoneOffTheRails · 21/03/2025 12:39

Grammarnut · 20/03/2025 23:28

Well, it's unhealthy. You shouldn't shave your pubes, it can cause lots of skin irritation, spots etc.
Also, when women do it they look pre-pubescent (think this might be the point?) which is deeply creepy as well as pornified.
Tacky advert. I skip them now Youtube has thrown a fit about ad-blockers. I don't watch films there, though.

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Shaving is unhealthy? Really? Men manage to do it every day.

There is nothing creepy about removing any body hair. And there’s nothing prepubescent about a woman who has had a wax.

Do you also think clean shaved men look pre-pubescent?

BrandonFlowersEyesWithEyeliner · 21/03/2025 12:37

Redpeach · 21/03/2025 07:57

Oh come on, it's a nod to the younger version of the female

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Absolutely agree 👍 (but we're not allowed to say that as that makes us uptight prudes who've sewn up our vaginas )

carrotsandtomatoes · 21/03/2025 11:02

Redpeach · 21/03/2025 07:57

Oh come on, it's a nod to the younger version of the female

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Do you think this about armpits too? Honestly, women removing body hair isn’t all about looking prepubescent.

I assume you don’t remove any body hair

carrotsandtomatoes · 21/03/2025 11:01

Grammarnut · 20/03/2025 23:28

Well, it's unhealthy. You shouldn't shave your pubes, it can cause lots of skin irritation, spots etc.
Also, when women do it they look pre-pubescent (think this might be the point?) which is deeply creepy as well as pornified.
Tacky advert. I skip them now Youtube has thrown a fit about ad-blockers. I don't watch films there, though.

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Oh stop with the prepubescent clap trap. I only hear this from highly repressed individuals.
do you shave your arm pits? Does that make you look deviant and attractive to paedofiles?

Itsyourwifeymacrid · 21/03/2025 10:48

I think alot of people are bit offended by it,the point is why make ads about shaving ya pubes off,now there's ads about it kids are going to be doing it,kids see these ads aswel it's not just one person that's seen it,I seen a ad on you tube for a drinks bottle and the woman's rubbing it up and down and shaking it and stuff,clearly impersonating a penis, it's stupid there's to much of this going on now it needs to stop,we would never see adverts like that when we was kids and I'd feel so embarrassed seeing something like that when I'm sat with my mam and dad,our kids ain't any different they just have no option but to see it now and it's the norm

Bananalanacake · 21/03/2025 08:53

I didn't know men shaved their pubes, I thought they fell out in the wash as I'm always finding them on DH's pants.
Anyway, we pay 10 euros a month not to have adverts on YouTube on our smart TV, worth every cent.

Redpeach · 21/03/2025 07:57

MidnightMillie · 21/03/2025 02:01

So you honestly think the vagina of a grown woman can resemble a vagina belonging to a little girl?

If my daughter’s vagina looked anything at all like mine, I’d take her to my GP immediately for an urgent referral.

I’d also do the same for myself if I suddenly started to look like a newborn baby due to hair loss.

Strange that you’d disagree with any of that.

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Oh come on, it's a nod to the younger version of the female

BeHere · 21/03/2025 07:12

I've seen it a zillion times. Made me think the analytics have gone wrong somewhere, as I'm female and don't shave my pubes.

Theunamedcat · 21/03/2025 05:47

I get it too and it's my kids watching YouTube for the most part. just interact with a just eat advert they will haunt you for months! I told Google I wasn't interested in just eat it continued to show me them just "silently" it was actually kinda creepy

Theunamedcat · 21/03/2025 05:45

TempestTost · 21/03/2025 00:05

I'm dreading the day when this trend is extended to adult diapers.

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Literally the advert next to your comment 😂

godawful Gillette ad of man shaving his pubes
anonymous98 · 21/03/2025 05:31

Lol I've also seen this one.

I could quite happily never see another advert for intimate razors, toilet paper, nappies etc. ever again, especially when eating.

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ThatNimblePeer · 21/03/2025 04:05

Hoardasurass · 20/03/2025 23:41

@ThatNimblePeer have you tried clicking the 3 dots on the add you should get a drop down menu which will have don't show this add again and most importantly why am I seeing this add

Thank you I will try this!!

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ThatNimblePeer · 21/03/2025 04:04

AlmostAJillSandwich · 20/03/2025 23:51

Not youtube (all hail AD block!) but it followed me round on twitch for months. Every ad break on every channel i wasn't a paid subscriber to, boom, it was pube man. Its that FACE he pulls when he puts his hand on the shower glass preparing to shave like he's grimmacing in pain that haunted me. Agreed he's not attractive and the ad is shot in a way they're very much sexualising his body and situation with the "seductive" narrator tone too. I'm not a fan at all of content like that and i never found a way to express dislike of that ad to be shown something else.

I’m not alone! Thank you! Not that I’m happy you’ve been experiencing it as well, but… misery loves company 😁

To all the cool cool girls who wouldn’t dream of being bothered by this ad or being forced to contemplate an unsexy stranger’s pube-shaving on a loop every time they were just hoping to listen to a relaxing song… your coolness has been duly noted. We all hail you 😎

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GoneOffTheRails · 21/03/2025 02:54

I know the advert and I think the allusion to shaving down there being like a scene from a horror film is what makes me uncomfortable. The man in it isn't particularly desirable either which doesn’t help.

It doesn’t particularly offend me though. And it’s not even remotely sexual.

The adverts I always get on YouTube are for Paddy Power. I don’t know why because I have never used a betting company in my life, but here we are, The Paddy Power adverts annoy the life out of me with the man with the stupid voiceover.

TertiaryAdjunctofUnimatrix01 · 21/03/2025 02:08

If you’re logged in to youtube, log out. Use duckduckgo as your browser. More generally, I also use a paid VPN (there are some good free options too).

MidnightMillie · 21/03/2025 02:01

BrandonFlowersEyesWithEyeliner · 21/03/2025 00:00

We'll agree to disagree

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So you honestly think the vagina of a grown woman can resemble a vagina belonging to a little girl?

If my daughter’s vagina looked anything at all like mine, I’d take her to my GP immediately for an urgent referral.

I’d also do the same for myself if I suddenly started to look like a newborn baby due to hair loss.

Strange that you’d disagree with any of that.

Teanbiscuits33 · 21/03/2025 00:57

Jesus, don’t you think you’re being a bit over dramatic here? I mean, you might not want to see it but if someone shaving body hair makes you feel sick then you’ve led quite a sheltered life and need to get a grip of yourself 🤣 All the !!!! and ‘how do I make it stop!?’ Come on, you’re being absolutely ridiculous.

EBearhug · 21/03/2025 00:51

BrandonFlowersEyesWithEyeliner · 21/03/2025 00:10

Clearly don't understand that women aren't "visual". I'm 100%straight, but looking at a naked "ripped" cheesy male model type does absolutely zero for me .

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Is it aimed at women? More the gay male gaze, I'd have thought.

swimsong · 21/03/2025 00:21

Switch to watching YouTube with the brave browser. You can redirect the hyperlinks in settings. No ads.

MissMarplesCat · 21/03/2025 00:20

I have no issues with seeing good looking man showing his lovely body.

VikingLady · 21/03/2025 00:12

It’s coming up on videos DS is watching too, including minecraft videos and educational ones too. Call me prejudiced, but I don’t think there’s that much overlap in audiences between minecraft tutorials and manscaping….

BrandonFlowersEyesWithEyeliner · 21/03/2025 00:10

AlmostAJillSandwich · 21/03/2025 00:06

It's not the product itself but how much that ad is very overtly sexualised thats the issue imo.
It's not aimed at men in a "this is a quality product that works well" way. It's shot very seedy like they're trying to seduce you, low lighting, background music iirc, and the narration is in a specific kind of voice like i'd say they're marketing the ad to women almost by ooh, man in a shower, showing off his abs and "V" and pulling faces like hes giving you the come on.

Clearly don't understand that women aren't "visual". I'm 100%straight, but looking at a naked "ripped" cheesy male model type does absolutely zero for me .

AlmostAJillSandwich · 21/03/2025 00:06

It's not the product itself but how much that ad is very overtly sexualised thats the issue imo.
It's not aimed at men in a "this is a quality product that works well" way. It's shot very seedy like they're trying to seduce you, low lighting, background music iirc, and the narration is in a specific kind of voice like i'd say they're marketing the ad to women almost by ooh, man in a shower, showing off his abs and "V" and pulling faces like hes giving you the come on.